Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-07-01
0RIGINlL AND BORROWED.

The President has stirred the
wrath of all sides and all parties
By FIRST approving an order to re-
turn all battle flags and then fol- |
loving il with another resembling |
it, with an excuse therefor which /
few, if any, consider very weighty. |
What would have been said if
Republican Administration had as
sampled the postmasters OF the |
United States to meet IN eonven-
tlon in Washington the winter be-
fore presidential nominations p
Three thousand are to do just that |
thing next winter.
The Marion Patriot Is Herald
tells a strange story Of two persons,
Allison aged 10 and Rice aged IA,
who were recently riding thesame
horse, near Glendale, Smyth Co.
A stroke of lightning killed Allison,
but lett Rice and the horse unhurt,
although Rice had his arms around
Allison at the time.
The Illinois legislature has pass
ed o law forbidding the sale OF
tobacco 10 persons under sixteen
years of age. The General Assem-
bly, Of the United Presbyterian
chareh, has decided 10 help no
young man to prepare for the min
istry unless he abstaiDs from the
use OF tobacco.
There is doubtless some truth in
the Louisville COWisy Journals
statement that "what Mr.. CleYe-
land most needs Is somebody at his
elbow who knows something"-but
what is the objection TO Dan La
monti Colonel Lamont knows a
good deal already, and he learns
something new every time his big
chief makes a spectacle of himself.
The Commissioner of Internal
Revenue has completed his arrange
ments for the transfer OF the sever.
al internal revenue districts, recent
~ consolidated under an Executive
order, so that the new arrangement
will 20 into effect the first Of July,
the beginning Of the next fiscal
year. After that date there will be
only two districts in Virginia, with
headquarters at Richmond and
Lynchburg, respectively.
Said one OF the girls about to
graduate in Buffalo: "Tve been
writing my essay every Saturday
since the term began, ald now /
have sixty.seven pages, and the
Subject is only half exhausted.'-
"What's the subject 1.-THE intel
lectusl superiority of women over
men, "Good gracious, does it take
134 pages Of manuscript to prove
that :" "Why, yes" ''Then you
must be on the wrong side of the
question"
1t has been suggested to those
who have been looking upon Sec
retsry Lamar as the coming man
for the Supreme Bench that his age
will be somewhat of a bar. Mr..
Lamar is sixty-two years old, and
as several other prominent men
whose attachments and character
were considered to make them pc
culiarly suitable for this position
have been dropped as unavailable
on account of age, this same objec-
ton, it is supposed, would apply to
Mr.. Lamar.
The Deforrest prize, gold med
al, valued at 800, given to that
scholar of the Yale senior class who
shall write and pronounce an Eng
lish grafton in the best manner, was
awarded TO John Bennett, OF New
Haven, Conn. Bennett is a com
positor, and the time that he could
spare from his studies has been
spent at q case in the composing
room Of the Register.
Miss Rosenthal was run over by
the fast mail on the Atlantic Coast
Line aud killed near Raleigh, n. g.,
Thursday. She was riding in
buggy with q Young man. The
horse became manageable, and
backed upon the track before the
advancing train. The young man
Jumped out, the better to manage
him, and the young lady jumped
cut on the other side and was run
over.
1t is now generally accepted that
the President has concluded there
will be no necessity for an extra
session Of Congress. He has, since
extrs-sessiOn talk began, expressed
himself ss being opposed to 1t, and
stated, on several occasions, that
be hoped affairs might take such
part that Congress would not have
TO assemble before the first Mon.
day 10 December. He has lately
come to the conclusion that call
sfCongress for an extra session is
not at all necessary this year, and
has 80 expressed himself to several
men of prominence who have con.
verssd with him on the subject.
No Republican in the country
has as large a following among the
Irish. Americans as Hon. James g..
Blame. No other Republican can